20 Notable alumni of
Saint Edward's University
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Saint Edward's University is 1725th in the world, 610th in North America, and 575th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Saint Edward's University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gabriel Luna
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Gabriel Isaac Luna is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider on the ABC action superhero series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Bravo on the El Rey Network drama series Matador, Paco Contreras on the ABC crime drama series Wicked City, Rev-9 in the Terminator film Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), and Tommy Miller on the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us. He has also starred in the films Bernie (2011), Balls Out (2014), Freeheld (2015), Gravy (2015), and Transpecos (2016).
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Tim Russ
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- screenwritermusicianfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Timothy Darrell Russ is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986), Casey in East of Hope Street (1998), Frank on Samantha Who?, Principal Franklin on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly, and D. C. Montana on The Highwaymen (1987–1988). He appeared in The Rookie: Feds (2022) and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.
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Luci Baines Johnson
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- businesspersonfinancier
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Luci Baines Johnson is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the younger daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson.
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Laurentino Cortizo
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo Cohen is a Panamanian politician who has served as the President of Panama since 2019. Previously, he served as President of the National Assembly and Minister of Agricultural and Livestock Development. Cortizo was also a member of the National Assembly between 1994 and 2004, serving a year as chamber president.
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Jorge Quiroga
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- politicianindustrial engineer
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Jorge Fernando Tuto Quiroga Ramírez is a Bolivian industrial engineer and politician who served as the 62nd president of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002. A former member of Nationalist Democratic Action, he previously served as the 36th vice president of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under Hugo Banzer and as minister of finance under Jaime Paz Zamora in 1992. During the interim government of Jeanine Áñez, he was briefly appointed from 2019 to 2020 as the country's international spokesperson to denounce alleged human rights violations by the previous government.
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Salam Fayyad
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- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
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Salam Fayyad is a Jordanian-Palestinian politician who served as the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and the finance minister.
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Silvestre Revueltas
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- film score composerconductorviolinistmusicologistclassical composer
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Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor.
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Amanda Marcotte
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- blogger
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Amanda Marie Marcotte is an American blogger and journalist who writes on feminism and politics from a liberal perspective. Marcotte has written for several online publications, including Slate, The Guardian, and Salon, where she is currently senior politics writer.
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Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa is a Bahraini diplomat who served as Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 until January 2020. Khalid became only the second foreign minister in Bahrain's history after replacing Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa who then became Bahrain's deputy prime minister.
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Abdul Karim al-Kabariti
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- economistpolitician
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Abdul Karim al-Kabariti is a Jordanian politician and businessman who was the 30th Prime Minister of Jordan from 4 February 1996 to 9 March 1997.
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Emily Wolfe
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- guitaristmusician
- Biography
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Emily Wolfe is an American rock and roll musician based out of Austin, TX. Wolfe was born in Raleigh, NC, and moved to Texas when she was 8 years old. She started playing guitar at the age of 5 and also started to play drums at an early age. In her college years at St. Edward's University she began to perform live.
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Taj McWilliams-Franklin
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Taj McWilliams-Franklin is a former American professional women's basketball player.
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Roger Metzger
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- baseball player
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Roger Henry Metzger is an American former Major League Baseball shortstop who played most of his career for the Houston Astros (1971–1978). He also played for the Chicago Cubs (1970) and the San Francisco Giants (1978–1980). A light-hitting shortstop, he was known for his strong defense and good running speed. He retired at age 32 because of the after-effects of a hand injury.
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Joe Aillet
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- basketball coach
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Joseph Roguet Aillet was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana Tech University from 1940 to 1966, compiling a record of 151–86–8. Additionally, under Aillet, the Bulldogs won nine conference championships. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989. Joe Aillet Stadium, the home of the Louisiana Tech football team, was dedicated in Aillet's honor in 1972.
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John Andrew Young
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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John Andrew Young was a Democratic politician from Texas who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1957 to 1979.
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Bill Killefer
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- baseball player
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William Lavier Killefer, nicknamed "Reindeer Bill", was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs. Killefer, who was nicknamed "Reindeer Bill" due to his speed afoot, is notable for being the favorite catcher of Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander and, for being one of the top defensive catchers of his era. After his playing career, he continued to work as a coach and a manager for a Major League Baseball career that spanned a total of 48 years.
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Robert C. Hilliard
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- lawyer
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Robert C. Hilliard is an American civil rights and personal injury attorney notable for his United States Supreme Court argument in Hernandez vs. Mesa seeking to hold a border patrol agent accountable for the cross border shooting of a Mexican national, Sergio Hernandez. He also was appointed and served as the nation's lead lawyer for personal injury victims in the General Motors ignition switch recalls litigation, one of the largest civil litigations in the country's history.
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lauren Ornelas
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United States - Occupations
- animal rights advocate
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lauren T. Ornelas is an American animal rights advocate for more than 20 years and is the founder of the Food Empowerment Project.
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Gina Calanni
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- politician
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Gina Nicole Calanni is a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from House District 132 in the western part of Harris County, including Katy, Cypress, and West Houston. On November 6, 2018, she defeated two-term Republican incumbent Mike Schofield—to whom she later lost in a reelection bid—and became the first woman to represent Texas House District 132.
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George Edward Cire
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- judgelawyer
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George Edward Cire was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
